Butch Lockley, 50, of Olney, Ill., a middle school principal with a wife and three children.

Daniel Lue, 27, of Houston, a tax accountant.

Roger Sexton, 56, a Valencia, Calif., resident who is vice president of a construction firm. He's married and has had two daughters, one who died at 16.

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Christy Smith, 24, of Basalt, Colo., is deaf but hears minimal sounds with a hearing aid and can lip-read. She's a children's adventure guide at a school for the deaf. Like all contestants, she was asked if it was fair to put her on the show. "She thought about it," said Jeff Probst, the show's host. "She said, `No, but life's not fair.'"